I wrote this in the early summer after reading a piece about ‘The Great British Car Journey’ – a heritage centre which...
Persistence of memory Fragments
Marking time
It’s been a spectacularly bad fortnight. So here’s a story about some records and what they mean. Because music holds...
What remains – ghosts 1
I’ve built up a bow wave of subjectivity over the years about ghosts. I grew up in a lapsed-methodist household, my...
Noisebox
This is primarily simply a list of all the records Noisebox in Norwich put out. Noisebox opened at the beginning of...
On Landscape interview – Nick Stone
An interview by Michéla Griffith, reproduced with kind permission of On Landscape magazine, April 2019. For this...
Brighton, before the fall
When I was a kid and on into my teens I used to dream about the stars moving. I mean, I know they are actually moving,...
Graffiti Jam, Sovereign House, Anglia Square 2009
I'm a bit of a graffiti watcher, I like the stuff basically, it's that human mark-making thing. The 'remember me'...
Babylon’s Burning
I’m reasonably open about the fact that I have a mental health condition – I suffer from anxiety. I talk about it...
Cambridge – persistence of memory
Persistence of memory My mum grew up here. Her and therefore my ancestors were here for hundreds of years working as...
Sucking Eggs
My mum died over ten years ago at a ripe old age after period of massive emotional instability and half mad bought on...
Spitfire versus Hurricane
The workhorse and the charger. I lived in North Walsham as a kid. RAF Coltishall was only about 6 miles away. We all...
9/11 – the years on
Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of writing. Louisa posted...
On Utah Beach
We'd just been away. It didn't take me very long to remember that I'm not very good at holidays. The vacancy of it all...
Dear Dad…
I've resisted an urge to paint this incomplete picture for a while. I started writing months ago, it would have been...
It’s beginning to and back again
We went to London. We do this journey quite often, from here, the east it is a fairly routine trip, a day out; one of...